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Culture and Customs of Spain

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Edward F. Stanton

Book Code: GR1463

ISBN: 0-313-31463-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31463-6

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232 pages, map, photos, tables

Greenwood Press

Publication: 5/30/2002

List Price: $57.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Culture and Customs of Europe

Reviews:

...impart much information on a wide range of cultural topics, offering readers jumping-off points for further reasearch.
—Multicultural Review December 2002
...useful if world history classes need another recent book on this country.
—Thomson-Gale Reference for Students October 2002
Recommended as an up-to-date reference on Spain.
—Gale-Reference Reviews September 2002
Cultures and Customs of Spain is a lively, readable guide to the diverse cultures and traditions of Spanish Society...Recommended for academic, school, and public libraries.
—American Reference Books Annual August 2002

Description: Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights into what writer Ernest Hemingway called "the very best country of all." Spain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely tied to their individual towns and regions--with their distinct social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and lifestyles--more than to a united country. Culture and Customs of Spain conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first and third world conditions, and the love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its contributions to the world--from unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar--are celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword
Preface
Chronology
Context
Religion
Customs
Media
Cinema
Literature
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Index

LC Card Number: 2001040556

LCC Class: DP48

Dewey Class: 946


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